AMERICAN INDIANS DO NOT HAVE FREEDOM OF RELIGION

THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SUPPOSEDLY GUARANTEES THE RIGHT OF EVERY AMERICAN TO PRACTICE FREELY THE RELIGION EACH CHOOSES.
THIS SEEMS TO APPLY TO CHRISTIANS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, EVERYONE EXCEPT THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS, THE "CONQUERED TRIBES" OF AMERICA.

ALTHOUGH A JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE 95th CONGRESS CREATED THE "AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT" IN 1978, IT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE A HOLLOW ACT, ONE THAT HAS FAILED THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION OF 'AMERICA' AND HAS DONE LITTLE TO NOTHING TO RESTORE TO THE RIGHTFUL INHABITANTS OF THE "U.S.A." THEIR FREEDOM TO "WORSHIP AS THEY SEE FIT".

YOU WILL BE HARD-PRESSED TO FIND ANY OTHER "RELIGIOUS GROUP" ON AMERICAN SOIL THAT IS AS RESTRICTED AND AS UN-FREE TO PRACTICE THEIR CHOSEN "RELIGION" AS THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HERE.

 The American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Public Law No. 95-341, 92 Stat. 469 (Aug. 11, 1978) (commonly abbreviated to AIRFA), codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1996, is a United States federal law, enacted by joint resolution of the Congress in 1978.

It was enacted to protect and preserve the traditional religious rights and cultural practices of American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians.

These rights include, but are not limited to, access to sacred sites, freedom to worship through ceremonial and traditional rights, and use and possession of objects considered sacred.

The act acknowledged prior federal infringement on the right of freedom of religion for American Indians by denying them their First Amendment right of "free exercise" of religion.

MAYBE PART OF THE PROBLEM STARTS WITH THE TERM "AMERICAN INDIAN"?

1st~ THIS IS NOT INDIA, BUT THE MISNOMER "INDIANS" WAS APPLIED BY A LOST SAILOR WHO HAD PROBLEMS WITH BOTH NAVIGATION AND GEOGRAPHY.
The name stuck. 

FEW INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, if they are honest, appreciate being called "INDIANS".
Tribes had their OWN names for themselves, unique names, in one of the ORIGINAL LANGUAGES of this continent....before the boats came.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH USING THOSE ORIGINAL NAMES?
Congress has and has always had, access to ALL the original names of the MANY Tribes. Why NOT use those when they passed this resolution, all those worthless, broken treaties, and addressed the federal governments relationship to the Tribes?

More importantly, to ME, is the very fact that the federal government insists on continuing to lump ALL Tribes, ALL Indigenous People under the misnomer, "American Indians".

Is it a trick so that they can NEGATE every treaty, every "law", everything that applies to their dealings with Indigenous Tribes?

After all, if I made a pact with, say, "Bartholomew Antiochus", who did not exist, but was in fact "John Smith", that pact would be totally worthless TO JOHN , would it not? 

CAN YOU SEE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT?

WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE, INDEED, INDIANS IN AMERICA TODAY...BUT ALL OF THEM HAVE ANCESTRAL LINEAGE TO....INDIA...WHICH IS NOT ON THIS CONTINENT!

2nd~ "AMERICAN"?
THIS WAS NEVER CALLED "AMERICA" IN PRE-EUROPEAN INVASION DAYS!
Again, each INDIGENOUS NATION, OR TRIBE' HAD ITS OWN NAME FOR WHERE THEY LIVED.
WHERE THE HELL WAS "AMERICA"?

Turns out "America" (Amerigo, actually) was a porn-loving Italian guy, a mapmaker and, later, a writer of the hottest-selling book of pornographic drawings in Europe!

NOBODY ASKED THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IF THEY WANTED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ITALIAN MAPMAKER!
If white people are happy being called that, fine, but the Original People NEVER got that choice.
If they HAD, I'm certain that they would have elected to be called what they had always called themselves!
And in their own languages, thanks!

THEIR WAS NOT ONE "AMERICAN" ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC/PACIFIC IN 1491!
NOR IN 1591....ETC.
AMERICA AS A TRUE NATION REALLY DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 1787, ACTUALLY.

HOW CAN ANY CONGRESS GRANT FREEDOM OF RELIGION TO A GROUP OF MISNAMED PEOPLE?

WELL, IT TURNS OUT THEY MUST HAVE NOT BEEN SERIOUS ABOUT THAT.
TURNS OUT "INDIANS" WERE NOT REALLY "GIVEN BACK THEIR FREEDOM TO PRACTICE THEIR NATIVE RELIGIONS".

DEAR CONGRESS, AND OFFSPRING OF THAT MAYFLOWER BUNCH,
"INDIANS" DON'T HAVE WHAT YOU CALL A "RELIGION"!
FROM ONE TRIBE TO ANOTHER, SPIRITUALITY, RITUALS, CEREMONIES VARY GREATLY, NO TWO BEING THE SAME!

SO WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A HOLLOW "RESOLUTION" GRANTED BY CONGRESS THAT IS WRONG ON 3 COUNTS:
1~ NO SUCH THING AS "INDIANS" HERE UNTIL WHITES ACCEPTED THE TERM AND NEVER STOPPED APPLYING IT, EVEN AFTER THEY FIGURED OUT THIS IS NOT INDIA.

2~ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE NEVER CALLED THIS PLACE "AMERICA" UNTIL WHITES INSISTED THAT'S WHAT IT IS.

3~ INDIGENOUS TRIBES DON'T HAVE "RELIGIONS".
WHAT YOU MAY SEE AS A "RELIGION" IS ACTUALLY A WAY OF LIFE!
IT INVOLVES SACRED CEREMONIES,
IT VARIES MUCH FROM TRIBE-TO-TRIBE.
CONGRESS HAS NO CONCEPT OF WHAT IT REALLY IS.

WRONG ON 3 COUNTS!

BUT, AS I SAID, CONGRESS HAD, APPARENTLY, NEVER INTENDED TO UPHOLD OR ENFORCE THIS "ACT"...BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T.

SUPPOSEDLY, the Act required policies of all governmental agencies to eliminate interference with the free exercise of Native American religion, based on the First Amendment, and to accommodate access to and use of religious sites to the extent that the use is practicable and is not inconsistent with an agency's essential functions.
 It also acknowledges the prior violation of that right.

I ASSURE YOU, INTERFERENCE IS STILL RAMPANT!
INTERFERENCE, IN FACT, IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY, EVERY DAY!

A MAJOR PART OF THE INTERFERENCE COMES IN THIS:
THE SACRED SITES OF THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES HAVE BEEN ERASED, TERMINATED, TURNED INTO THINGS LIKE PARKING LOTS, MOUNT RUSHMORE, SUBDIVISIONS, INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS, NATIONAL PARKS, STATE PARKS, OR HAVE BEEN FLOODED OUT OF EXISTENCE BY "TVA" OR CORPS OF ENGINEERS PROJECTS.
MANY, MANY ARE GONE!

GONE FOREVER!

HOW CAN PEOPLE "WORSHIP" WHEN THEIR "CHURCHES" HAVE BEEN RAZED, WHEN THEIR "ALTARS" HAVE BECOME HAMBURGER JOINTS, PIZZA PARLORS, ETC?

HOW CAN PEOPLE WORSHIP WHEN EVEN THE VOICES THEY USE TO WORSHIP VIOLATE "NOISE ORDINANCES",  SO CANNOT BE USED TO "WORSHIP"? 

HOW CAN PEOPLE WORSHIP WHEN OTHERS HAVE LAWS THAT PREVENT THEM FROM GATHERING FREELY WHAT THEY NEED TO HAVE THEIR CEREMONIES,
WHEN ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVE RULED THAT SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE "ILLEGAL", "ILLICIT DRUGS", "DISTURBING" AND FORBID THEIR USE?

THERE IS INTERFERENCE, BUT WHEN A TRIBE ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE THE INTERFERENCE, THEY USUALLY LOSE.
THE AMERICAN COURTS SELDOM RULE IN FAVOR OF THE "SAVAGES", THE "INDIANS".

"Due to the complex nature of American Indian religious beliefs, American Indian religions have often been at odds with existing federal laws and government policies. 

There have been three general areas of conflict. 

 Firstly, American Indians did not have access to a number of sacred places that the tribes had traditionally used in religious ceremonies. Native American religious practices often came into conflict with the idea that American public lands exist for the use and benefit of the American people. The results of the passage of the Indian Removal Act and the General Allotment Act were the displacement of hundreds of tribes, including the Five Civilized Tribes of the southeastern United States, and the forced assimilation of Native American families into agricultural settler societies.

 The second conflict is the possession by tribal members of ceremonial items that are restricted under United States law, such as eagle feathers or bones (under laws to protect threatened species), or peyote, a ritual drug and restricted substance. The conflict lies in the fact that items such as peyote are integral parts of ceremonies practiced by members of churches such as the Native American Church. 

The importance of eagle bones for use in traditional religious ceremonies has been repeatedly cited in cases involving Indian claims on hunting and fishing rights to allow tribal member to hunt for eagles.

 The third general area of conflict was an issue of PHYSICAL interference. 

Sacred ceremonies were sometimes subject to interference from overzealous officials or curious onlookers.

Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988) is a landmark case in the Supreme Court's decisions affecting Native American religion under the AIRFA. 

The bureaucratic decisions to alter land sites implemented by the Court on this case, constitute invasions of tribal self-understanding. 

This case helped to prove that the dissipation of tribal identity is the consequence of land desecration.

The fact that land desecration is allowed to happen so easily is a result of the absence of enforcement and stability within the terms of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

The Theodoratus Report was a comprehensive study prompted by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act during Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association and conducted by the United States Forest Service in order to evaluate policies and procedures to protect Native American religious cultural rights and practices.

This study was completed in April 1979, ONE YEAR AFTER AIRFA WAS PASSED, and was titled "Cultural Resources of the Chimney Rock Section, Gasquet-Orleans Road, Six Rivers National Forest" and was written by Dr. Dorothea J. Theodoratus, Dr. Joseph L. Chartkoff, and Ms. Kerry K. Chartkoff.
 It was a compilation of ethnographic, archaeological and historical data that ABSOLUTELY identified the culture contained in the area that the Forest Service proposed to be the site of the Chimney Rock Section of the Gasquet-Orleans Road WHICH KEPT THE TRIBES FROM THEIR "FREEDOM TO WORSHIP". 

This culture ,THE REPORT FOUND, belonged RIGHTFULLY to the Yurok, Karok, and Tolowa peoples.

This case's decision states that tribes have NO First Amendment right of religious freedom that can halt federal land management of public lands that contain sacred tribal spaces. 

THE DECISION OF THE COURT NEGATED THE "FREEDOM TO WORSHIP" OF "AMERICAN INDIANS".

It became the standing precedent that threatens the survival of ALL traditional Native American communities whose sacred lands, by the fault of the government's history of Indian affairs, are on public land rather than on reservations. 

The Supreme Court advocated its decision to refuse the countenance of the religious valuation of land as representing its responsibility towards enforcing the First Amendment rights of the Native American plaintiff.

LOOKS LIKE THE "INDIAN" WARS ARE NOT OVER!
BUT IT DOESN'T STOP THERE!

Peyote is illegal in the United States and is classified as a Schedule One Drug.

PEYOTE, LIKE HEMP/MARIJUANA, TOBACCO, AND SEVERAL OTHER THINGS, WAS COMMONLY USED BY SOME INDIGENOUS TRIBES IN CEREMONY....UNTIL THE BOATS ARRIVED AND "RESERVATIONS" WERE MADE FOR THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS FAR AWAY FROM THEIR SOURCES OF SUCH THINGS. 

In Employment Division v. Smith (1990), the Court AGAIN ruled against the Native American Church, DENYING its constitutional rights. 

Alfred Smith, a n Indigenous Tribesman who had been born on the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, was fired from his job at an agency in Roseburg, Oregon. 

His termination was based on his attendance at ceremonies of the Native American Church, which uses peyote as a sacrament. 

Because it is a restricted substance under drug laws, Smith was fired for his use of it. 

Another member of the N.A.C. was also fired from the agency for the same reason. 

When denied unemployment compensation, Smith and his co-worker challenged the grounds of their terminations. Smith took his case to the Oregon courts, which ruled in his favor of protected use of peyote under the free-exercise clause of AIRFA.

The U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the case, and OVERTURNED the Oregon court ruling.

The Supreme Court stated that they could in fact be denied unemployment benefits because by using peyote they were in violation of STATE criminal law.

NOW, THE SUPREME COURT SURELY KNEW THE "SUPREMACY CLAUSE" OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN USED IN THIS INSTANCE SINCE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAD GRANTED THE TRIBES THE RIGHT TO "WORSHIP AS THEY SEE FIT" IN 1978.
AIRPA, A FEDERAL ACT, WOULD HAVE NEGATED THE STATE LAW.

 The Smith decision prompted the development of the Native American Religious Freedom Project which involved and concerned almost every Native American tribe in the country. The case was taken up with Congress, and in 1993 the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed, and by 1994 the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments were passed as Public Law 103-344. 

The Amendments restored the constitutional rights of the Native American Church.

RESTORED?

WHEN THE CASE WENT TO THE SUPREME COURT, THE AIRPA AT THAT TIME GUARANTEED THIS RIGHT! THE ACT WAS NEVER RESCINDED!
THE SUPREME COURT SIMPLY HATED "INDIANS", OBVIOUSLY TO ME!

THE ACT IS NOT WORTH MUCH, IS IT?

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act IS VALID, HAS BEEN SINCE 1978.
THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE NATION SIMPLY REFUSED, ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION to ENFORCE IT!

 AIRPA DOES NOT provide religious freedom without condition. 

The act served MERELY AND LAMELY as only a HOLLOW resolution, NOT AS AN ACTUAL LAW.

 Its ABJECT FAILURE to protect certain sacred sites, use of ceremonial items and substances, free access to "worship" sites CONTINUES to prove detrimental to Indigenous Tribes' culture and their spiritual practices as a whole.
IT LOOKS LIKE A MOCKERY TO ME!
IT LOOKS LIKE A CARROT DANGLING BEFORE A HORSE'S FACE TO MAKE IT WORK.

THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE CANNOT COUNT ON HAVING THE SAME FREEDOM OF WORSHIP THAT ALL OTHERS IN AMERICA ENJOY!

THEIR CHOICE OF "RELIGION" DOES NOT SUIT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR SUPREME COURT'S DEFINITION OF "THE RIGHT OF ALL TO WORSHIP AS THEY SEE FIT".
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE THE INDIGENOUS NATIONS "WARDS OF THE STATE" AND THEN DENIED THEM THE RIGHT THAT ALL OTHER PEOPLE HAVE HERE TODAY.

TRIBAL PEOPLE CAN ONLY WORSHIP AS IT SUITS THEIR CONQUERORS.

IN 2011, AT WHAT IS NOW CALLED WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, A GROUP OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MET TO ENACT SACRED CEREMONY.
THEY WERE MET BY ARMED FEDERAL RANGERS, WHAT APPEARED TO BE A S.W.A.T. TEAM.

RUSSEL MEANS WAS IN THAT GROUP AND REPORTED THAT THE AREA WAS ROPED OFF WITH FENCE AROUND IT.
THE "SAVAGES" WERE BEING SUBDUED ONCE AGAIN!

THE "CAVALRY" HAD BEEN CALLED IN! 

KNOWING THEIR RIGHTS, THE GROUP MOVED IN, SET UP CAMP, AND STAYED THERE TO COMPLETE THEIR CEREMONY...WHICH TOOK 5 DAYS.

IMAGINE MEETING SUCH A FORCE EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO GO TO CHURCH!
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?  

SINCE THE LATE 1700s, ALL OTHER PEOPLE OF AMERICA HAVE HAD FREEDOM TO WORSHIP AT A CHURCH OR SYNAGOGUE OR MOSQUE OR WHATEVER OF THEIR CHOICE, IN WHATEVER WAY THEY SEE FIT.

NOT THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE!
NOT THE "INDIANS"!

FIRST, THEY HAVE TO PROVE THEY ARE "INDIANS" BEFORE THEY CAN "LEGALLY" USE CERTAIN ITEMS IN CEREMONY...LIKE PEYOTE.!
THEY ARE REQUIRED TO PROVE THEIR ANCESTRY BY SOME WHITE-CREATED "PAPER TRAIL", LIKE PURE-BRED DOGS WITH "PAPERS" , WITH "PEDIGREES". 

THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO HAVE TO APPLY "BLOOD QUANTUM" TO DETERMINE IF THEY QUALIFY TO "BE" AN "INDIAN"!

SECONDLY, SOME CEREMONY IS ONLY OPEN TO "BONAFIDE TRIBAL MEMBERS"....THEY MUST BE "REGISTERED" IN THE TRIBE.

ARE YOU A REGISTERED ANGLO-SAXON?
A REGISTERED AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAYBE?

A REGISTERED ASIAN-AMERICAN?

IS YOUR RACE FORCED TO PROVE ITSELF, OR BE REGISTERED?

DOES YOUR RACE REQUIRE YOU TO PROVE YOU HAVE THE SUFFICIENT "BQ" (BLOOD QUANTUM) TO CALL YOURSELF BY YOUR RACE'S NAME?
DID YOU HAVE TO REGISTER INTO YOUR RACE, OR INTO YOUR CLAN?

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE TO PROVE YOU'RE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE BEFORE YOU COULD RECEIVE SACRAMENTS, SAY A PRAYER, SING A HYMN?

"AMERICAN INDIANS", NOT SO LONG AGO, WERE SHOT, WERE JAILED, WERE CARTED AWAY FOR PERFORMING A SUN DANCE, A GHOST DANCE, FOR RAISING SWEAT LODGES, FOR USING PEYOTE, FOR WORSHIPING AS THEY SAW FIT!

HOW ABOUT YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR RACE?

NO?

THEN YOU MUST BE AMONG THE "BLESSED", THOSE FREE TO CHOOSE AND PRACTICE WHATEVER RELIGION YOU WANT.

OF THE FIRST 12 CASES BROUGHT BEFORE AMERICAN COURTS TO ENFORCE THE AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM  ACT, "INDIANS" LOST ALL 12!

JUST LIKE THE HUNDREDS OF BROKEN TREATIES, THE PROMISES OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO "TAKE CARE OF ITS RED CHILDREN", THEY LIED!

THEY LIED AGAIN!

MEANS REPORTED ON THE ENCOUNTER IN 2011 WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AT WIND CAVE:
"Two weeks ago, we had to remind the National Park Service (NPS) that we have been engaging in our ceremonies long before there was a NPS. When the NPS said that we were subject to the restrictions of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, we reminded them that we, and our ceremonies, are part of the living archaeology of the region.

At one point, while the ceremony was in progress, the rangers entered the camp and began to give orders about how the camp was to be organized. I challenged them to arrest us. We were willing and able to assert our natural rights, our treaty rights, and our statutory rights before a federal judge.

At the same time that we were asserting our rights at Wind Cave, a gang of thugs, known as the U.S. Supreme Court, was handing down its recent decision in U.S. v. Jicarilla Apache Nation. The main part of the opinion was bad enough, saying that the U.S. could engage in conflict of interest in administering Indian trust assets, and the U.S. does not have to disclose its bad acts."

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TODAY, RIGHT NOW, IS CONTINUING THE GOOD OLD AMERICAN TRADITION OF FIGHTING "INDIANS", OF "PUTTING THE SAVAGES IN THEIR PLACE".

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, IS STILL SHOWING INDIGENOUS TRIBES "WHO'S THE BOSS".

THE "TRUST RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND INDIAN TRIBES" IS, AS MEANS AND MANY OTHERS HAVE SAID, A SHAM!
IT'S A BLOOD-DRIPPING LIE!

"INDIAN TRIBES" WERE DECLARED TO BE "SOVEREIGN NATIONS", BUT THE ONLY THING SOVEREIGN WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO DEALING WITH THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE HERE IS THE INTERESTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
THAT USUALLY MEANS MONETARY PROFITS FOR THE FEDS.

CONSTANT, ONGOING, NEWS-MAKING MISMANAGEMENT OF "INDIAN TRUST FUNDS", MISSING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THIS ALONE SHOULD SHOW HOW CARING, HOW PROTECTIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OF ITS "RED CHILDREN".

THAT THE "CARETAKERS" OF NATIVE TRIBES CAN AND DO LEASE OUT "INDIAN" LANDS FOR 99 YEARS TO RANCHERS, MINING COMPANIES, OR USE THOSE LANDS AS NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS, TRADE THOSE LANDS LIKE BASEBALL CARDS, ALL AGAINST THE WILL OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE, THIS SHOULD SHOW THE WORLD WHAT CHANCE "INDIANS" HAVE OF EVER ESCAPING THE GRIPS OF THE CONQUERORS, OF BECOMING "EQUALS UNDER THE LAW".

LOOKS LIKE THAT CONSTITUTION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR THE "RED MAN", DOESN'T IT?

WHAT CHANCE, GIVEN THIS, DO YOU THINK "INDIANS" WILL EVER HAVE TO GO BACK TO THEIR TRADITIONAL WAYS OF LIFE, TO "WORSHIP FREELY", TO LIVE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE HERE IN "AMERICA"?

THE WAR CONTINUES.
IT NEVER ENDED.

"INDIANS" ARE STILL UNDER THE GUN!

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RADICAL ISLAM IS PURE ISLAM

STATISTICS, DATA GATHERED OVER DECADES, THE FACTS JUST MAY SHOW THAT "RADICAL ISLAM" IS THE NORM.

[PLEASE TAKE NOTE! WHAT I WRITE HERE, IN THIS PARTICULAR BLOG, IS NOT JUST "MY OPINION", BUT I HAVE, AS ALWAYS, GONE TO THE SOURCE...TO INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MUSLIMS, MUSLIM WEBSITES, IMAMS, EXPERTS BECAUSE THEY ARE MUSLIM.
IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE FACTS THEY GAVE ME, TAKE IT UP WITH THEM, NOT ME!]

IN SPITE OF THE "LET'S ALL JUST GET ALONG", ROSE-COLORED GLASSES, POLLYANNA DREAM THAT GROUPS LIKE THE FOLLOWING ARE SOMEHOW OUTSIDE THE REALM OF ISLAM, THEY ARE NOT.
MOST SEE THEM AS THE PUREST FORM OF ISLAM.

MOST OF THESE GROUPS, IN FACT ALMOST EVERY ONE, ARE NOT CONSIDERED TERRORISTS BY THE MAJORITY OF MUSLIM PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE U.S.A.:

HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, THE ISLAMIC STATE,  BOKO HARAM IN AFRICAN NATIONS, AL-QAEDA,  THE TALIBAN, THE ISLAMIC JIHAD ORGANIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA, ISLAMIC MOVEMENT OF UZBEKISTAN,  THE CAUCASUS EMIRATE OF THE STATES IN AND AROUND "OLD RUSSIA", THE ABU SAYYAF GROUP OF THE PHILIPPINES, ABDULLAH AZZAM BRIGADES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, ABU SAYYAF IN AUSTRALIA/CANADA, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, THE P.L.O., FATAH....
THERE ARE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF SUCH ORGANIZATIONS ALL OVER THE GLOBE, IN ABSOLUTELY EVERY NATION ON EARTH.
EVEN THE "PEACE-LOVING" UNITED NATIONS KEEPS UPDATED LISTS OF THESE TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.
THEIR LISTS ARE GROWING EVERY YEAR!

ISLAM HAS THE FASTEST-GROWING POPULATION ON EARTH

During the first half of the mid-20th century, the Muslim population in Europe was extremely small. 
By the year 2000, that population had swelled to more than 15 million, including 5 million in France, 4 million in Germany, and 2 million in Britain. Substantial Muslim populations also inhabit Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Today Muslims constitute the continent's largest religious minority, and Islam its fastest-growing faith. Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim; in numerous cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim, and Mohammed is the most popular name among boys. 
Thousands of mosques with large congregations now dot the European landscape, and in virtually every city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every Christian church in their vicinity. A recent study calculated that fully 25 percent of Europe's population will be Muslim by the year 2020. The scholar Bernard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority on the continent by the end of the 21st century.

TO SUSTAIN A CULTURE, REPRODUCTION RATES MUST REACH AT LEAST 2.11 CHILDREN PER FEMALE CAPABLE OF BEARING CHILDREN.
THIS LEVEL IS NO LONGER BEING ATTAINED BY ANY EUROPEAN NATION, NOR BY AMERICA. 

Birth rate of Europe?

France 1.8
England 1.6
Greece 1.3
Germany 1.3
Italy 1.2
Spain 1.1
ALL UNSUSTAINABLE.

1/3 of all European children will be born to Muslim families by 2025.

The U.S. birth rate now is 1.9 births per woman over her lifetime, when 2.11 births per woman is necessary to sustain the population of a culture, a race. 

ISLAM DOES NOT ALLOW FOR WOMEN TO DECIDE HOW MANY CHILDREN THEY WILL HAVE. THERE WILL BE NO SHORTAGE OF NEW MUSLIMS
ISLAM DOES NOT BOW TO OTHERS, OTHERS MUST BOW TO ISLAM.
THAT IS SIMPLY THE MEANING OF "ISLAM", TO SUBMIT.  

The ENTIRE system of Islamic Law known as Shari'a, which Muslims consider to be the divinely ordained commands of Allah is  incompatible with Western legal systems.

MUSLIMS WILL NEVER ACCEPT THE DOMINION OF WESTERN LAWS, OF ANY LAW NOT GROUNDED IN ISLAM, BASED ON THE QUR'AN..

WITH THEIR NUMBERS GROWING IN ALL NATIONS, MUSLIMS WILL HAVE THE NUMBERS TO BACK UP THEIR ASSERTED RIGHT TO SHARIA LAW IN ALL THE NATIONS THEY LIVE IN.

Many Muslims were inspired to relocate by the sermons and exhortations of militant Islamist leaders and Imams who urged Muslims to subjugate Europe (and America) by the sheer force of numbers; i.e., to extend their domain by means of immigration and procreation.Fundamentalist Muslim immigrants and their spokesmen have pressured Western societies into supporting, incrementally, various aspects of Sharia (Islamic Law) into the jurisprudence system. Likewise, they have demanded that the native cultures either make concessions to Islamic traditions in the spirit of “diversity.” Meanwhile, Islamic immigrants increasingly elect not to assimilate into their host societies, choosing instead to reject local mores and to push for the creation of a (Muslim-only) state within a state. Thus Europe has witnessed the rapid rise of exclusively Muslim neighborhoods, where few members of the native population or police officers are ever seen.

Paris, for example, is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods fitting this description.

CAN ANYONE READ THE FOLLOWING AND STILL THINK "RADICAL ISLAM" IS NOT THE NORM?  

"The Pew Research Center reports that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France, and that one-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. Similarly, the British Center for Social Cohesion reports that one-third of British Muslim students support the creation of a worldwide caliphate. And a Dutch study reports that half of Dutch Muslims claim to "understand" the motivations that inspired the 9/11 attacks."

WHAT IS RADICAL TO THE REST OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE ISLAM IS NORMAL AND ACCEPTABLE TO ISLAMIC PURISTS!IT IS THE DEVOUT BELIEF OF ISLAM THAT IT IS THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION AND THAT ALL THE WORLD MUST ACCEPT THIS. 

Throughout the Western world, Islamic extremists and local fringe communities that advocate terror have provided cover for terrorist cells. For instance, Germany and Spain served as key logistical planning bases for the 9/11 attacks.

The United Kingdom has become a breeding ground for Muslim extremists, as evidenced by the radical mosques in London's Finsbury Park that indoctrinated Richard Reid (the infamous “shoe bomber”) and Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called “20th hijacker” of the 9/11 plot). The March 2004 bombings in Madrid (which killed 191 people on commuter trains) were carried out by an al Qaeda-inspired group of North Africans, and the July 2005 London bombings (which killed at least 52 and injured more than 700) were the work of British nationals with ties to al Qaeda.

The United States has also seen a rise in radical Islam within its borders, though to a lesser extent than Europe.

Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi ideological structure has poured vast sums of money into a campaign to fund the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in America. The short-term objective of this Saudi campaign is to use the Muslim community in the U.S. to pressure the American government to enact policies that allow Islam to become an ever-more influential force in American society, and to pressure the U.S. media to play an active role in promoting positive images of Islam. The long-term goal is to transform America into a Muslim nation.

Currently 80% of American mosques are under Wahhabi control, meaning that Wahhabists hold authority over such vital considerations as the appointment and training of imams, the content of sermons, and the nature of the literature that is distributed in mosques and mosque bookstores. Similar Wahhabi influence extends to prison and military chaplaincies, Islamic elementary and secondary schools (academies), college campus activities, the endowment of academic chairs and programs in Middle East studies, and charities ostensibly helping Muslims abroad; many of these charities have been linked to -- or designated as -- sponsors of terrorism.

The key players in the implementation of this Wahhabist agenda are the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which originated in the Muslim Students' Association of the U.S. and Canada, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Both ISNA and CAIR maintain open and intimate relations with the Saudi government. Their efforts have been supplemented by such organizations as the American Muslim Council, the American Muslim Alliance, the Muslim American Society, the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.

FEW PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THIS. FEW CHOOSE TO DO THE RESEARCH, LOOK AT THE DATA, AND SEE THAT "RADICAL ISLAM" APPLIES TO THE BASIC BELIEFS OF ISLAM.
ONE HAS BUT TO GO ONLINE AND FIND THE "ACCEPTABLE TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY QUR'AN" AND READ IT TO SEE HOW THE PROPHET EVOLVED FROM HIS INITIAL BELIEFS TO VIEWING THAT ALL WHO ARE NOT MUSLIM ARE HERETICS, LOST, UNACCEPTABLE TO "ALLAH".

THE PROBLEM IS, ISLAM DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY TRANSLATION OUT OF THE ARABIC  LANGUAGE AS VALID. 

SUCH A THING IS CONDEMNED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 

According to modern Islamic theology, the Qur'an is a revelation very specifically in Arabic, and so it should only be recited in the Arabic language. Translations into other languages are necessarily the work of humans and so, according to Muslims, no longer possess the uniquely sacred character of the Arabic original. Since these translations necessarily subtly change the meaning, they are often called "interpretations". 

EVEN OTHER LANGUAGES ARE NOT WELCOME IN ISLAM.

HOWEVER, SUCH "INTERPRETATIONS" CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.islamawakened.com/index.php/qur-an

THE GOAL OF ISLAM
“The idea is simple: Islam must have power in this world. It is the true religion—the religion of God—and its truth is manifest in its power. When Muslims believed, they were powerful. Their power has been lost in modern times because Islam has been abandoned by many Muslims, who have reverted to the condition that preceded God’s revelation to the Prophet Muhammad. But if Muslims now return to the original Islam, they can preserve and even restore their power. That return, to be effective, must be comprehensive; Islam provides the one and only solution to all questions in this world, from public policy to private conduct. It is not merely a religion, in the Western sense of a system of belief in God. It possesses an immutable law, revealed by God, that deals with every aspect of life, and it is an ideology, a complete system of belief about the organization of the state and the world. This law and ideology can only be implemented through the establishment of a truly Islamic state, under the sovereignty of God. The empowerment of Islam, which is God’s plan for mankind, is a sacred end.”

"Radical Islamists" tend to gravitate toward three major methods of achieving their ultimate objective.

~The first is to fight the Near Enemy prior to fighting the Far Enemy.
The Near Enemy is anyone inside Islamic lands, whether it is an occupier or someone who has taken away territory that used to be Islamic. 

~The second method is to fight the Greater Unbelief—the major enemy, which today is the United States—before the Lesser Unbelief. 

~And the third method is to fight the Apostates (false Muslims) first, and then the other Unbelievers.

PAY ATTENTION!
THE APOSTATES WILL BE NUMBER ONE ON THE LIST WHEN/IF ISLAMIST PURISTS MANAGE TO TAKE POWER IN ANY NATION. 

"AMERICANIZED" OR "WESTERNIZED" MUSLIMS ARE UNACCEPTABLE TO THOSE WHO DON'T EVEN ACCEPT A TRANSLATION OF THEIR HOLY QUR'AN.

ISLAM MUST...MUST ESTABLISH A WORLDWIDE CALIPHATE, A "ONE-WORLD-RELIGION"...ISLAM.

NOT A HYBRID RELIGION, BUT THE PUREST ...WHICH WE STILL CALL "RADICAL ISLAM".
ANY "RELIGION" THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO ALLOWANCES FOR OTHERS TO CHOOSE ANOTHER RELIGION, THAT SEES IT AS THEIR DUTY TO THEIR "GOD" TO SUBJUGATE ALL PEOPLE, THAT CONDEMNS UTTERLY ANYONE WHO LEAVES ISLAM, OR CORRUPTS IT, THAT "RELIGION" IS MOST DEFINITELY RADICAL.

SAUDI ARABIA REFUSES TO ALLOW EVEN ONE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INSIDE ITS BORDERS.

THE PERSECUTION OF ALL OTHER NON-MUSLIMS WITHIN ISLAMIC STATES MAKES IT CRYSTAL CLEAR THAN "NORMAL ISLAM" IS, INSTEAD, RADICAL ISLAM.

AS THIS ARTICLE STATES, "ISLAM IS NOT LIKE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD".

~80 MILLION DEATHS IN INDIA WERE ATTRIBUTED TO KILLINGS BY ISLAM.

~ 110 MILLION AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE DEAD AT THE HANDS OF "ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS"

~By the year 750, a hundred years after the conquest of Jerusalem, at least 50 percent of the world's Christians found themselves under Muslim hegemony… Today there is no indigenous Christianity in the region [of Northwest Africa], no communities of Christians whose history can be traced to antiquity.[THEY CONVERTED OR ELSE WERE EXTERMINATED.]~1 million Europeans were enslaved by Muslim Barbary Pirates  


~1.5 million Armenian Christians killed by the Turks during WWI

~ For decades, 100 virgins per year were required by the Muslim rulers of Spain from the conquered population.  The tribute was only stopped when the Spaniards began fighting back .

~The Buddhists of Thailand and Malaysia were slaughtered en masse when Muslims began to conquer there.

~The Muslim invasion  of China in 651 A.D. left millions dead there. 

THE KILLING IS HORRIFIC, BUT ISLAM, PURE ISLAM, DEMANDS MORE: 

~ Over 125 Million women in TODAY'S MUSLIM NATIONS have been genitally mutilated for Islamic honor's sake. 

~ ANY FEMALE WHO IS MENSTRUATING CAN BE A WIFE. THOSE WHO DO NOT MENSTRUATE MAY ALSO BE TAKEN AS A WIFE;
[SEE al-Talaaq 65:4]

"The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) married ‘Aa’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) when she was six years old and the marriage was consummated when she was nine years old. " 

"Qudaamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Sharh al-Kabeer, 7/386: 

"With regard to females, the father may give his minor, virgin daughter who has not yet reached the age of nine in marriage, and there is no difference of opinion concerning that, if he gives her in marriage to someone who is compatible."

SOME MOTHERS MAY NOT WANT THEIR YOUNG FEMALE CHILDREN TO BE UP FOR GRABS BY SOME OLD GUY LOOKING FOR A VIRGIN WIFE!

TOO BAD! ISLAM SAYS THEY MAY MARRY!  


ISLAM IS NEVER APPEASED, EXCEPT BY TOTAL SURRENDER
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, APPEASEMENT ARE ALL SEEN AS WEAKNESS BY DEDICATED, TRUE MUSLIMS.
ANYONE WHO YIELDS AN INCH IS SEEN AS SOMEONE WHO CAN BE MADE TO SUBMIT COMPLETELY.

I HAVE DILIGENTLY STUDIED THE QUR'AN SINCE 1967.  
I HAVE LIVED IN MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC NATIONS.
I HAVE EXAMINED THE QUR'AN IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE AND THE MORE "ACCEPTABLE INTERPRETATIONS".
I HAVE HAD LONG, LONG CONVERSATIONS WITH DEVOUT MUSLIMS.
I HAVE SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE GIVES PLACE TO ISLAM.
I HAVE BEEN TOLD FACE-TO-FACE THAT I MUST SUBMIT TO ISLAM FOR MY OWN GOOD, THAT NOT TO DO SO WILL ONLY LEAD TO MY "ETERNAL DAMNATION".

I HAVE READ AND ASKED AND LISTENED FOR OVER 40 YEARS TO THOSE WHO ARE DEDICATED TO PURE ISLAM.

WEBSITES LIKE THE FOLLOWING SHOULD GIVE ANYONE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MUSLIMS SEE THINGS. ON SOME SUCH SITES, ACTUAL IMAMS ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. THESE ARE NOT "WESTERNIZED" ANSWERS:

http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/  

http://islamqa.info/en

http://www.justaskislam.com/

EXAMPLES:
~Is watching TV allowed?
NO!
"With regard to television, it is a dangerous device and its harmful effects are very great, like those of the cinema, or even worse.

Whoever thinks that this device (TV) can be free of these evils and can be used only for good purposes if it is censored properly is exaggerating and is making a big mistake, because the censor may miss things and most people nowadays want to imitate the foreigners. It is very rare to find censors who are doing their job properly, especially nowadays when most people are only interested in time-wasting entertainment and things that turn people away from true guidance. Reality bears witness to that.

We ask Allaah to keep us safe from all evil for He is the Most Generous."

~ IS TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED IN ISLAM?
NO!
"The basic principle concerning making pictures of any animate being, whether it is a human or any animal, is that it is haraam, whether the pictures are three-dimensional or are drawn on paper, cloth or walls, etc., or are photographs (taken with a camera), because of the reports in the saheeh ahaadeeth which state that that is not allowed, and threaten the one who does that with a painful torment, and because they may lead to shirk in the form of standing respectfully before them, humbling oneself before them, drawing close to them and venerating them in a manner that is only befitting for Allaah. They are also forbidden because this is a kind of trying to match the creation of Allaah, and because of the temptation inherent in some of them, such as pictures of actresses and naked women, and so-called beauty queens."  

I AM SURE THAT ANY WHO VISIT THE "ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT ISLAM"  ON THE 3 WEBSITES LISTED ABOVE WILL BE AT LEAST MILDLY SHOCKED AT THE ANSWERS, MAINLY BECAUSE AMERICAN MUSLIMS DO NOT ALWAYS LIVE BY THESE RULINGS.
IF EVER AMERICAN MUSLIMS GO TO ISLAMIC NATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THEY WILL BE REQUIRED TO OBEY THE FULL LAW THERE!

FAILURE TO KNOW THE FACTS 
"What is certainly true is that American politicians, mostly Christian or atheist, know less about the nature of Islam and Islamic radicalism than members of ISIS. To suggest that a cursory examination of platitudes about the Koran provides enough knowledge to spout paternalistic expertise about the religion is insulting to Muslims of all stripes.
he West has swallowed multiculturalism wholesale, to the point where it’s politically unpalatable to condemn Islamic extremism for the mass rape of children.
So, here is the evidence that the enemy we face is not a “tiny minority” of Muslims, let alone a rootless philosophy unconnected to Islam entirely. It’s not just the thousands of westerners now attempting to join ISIS. It’s millions of Muslims who support their general goals. 
In short, tens of millions of Muslims all over the world sympathize with the goals or tactics of terrorist groups – or both. That support is stronger outside the West, but it is present even in the West. Islamist extremism is not a passing or fading phenomenon – it is shockingly consistent over time. And the West’s attempts to brush off the ideology of fanaticism has been an overwhelming failure."

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO THEIR OWN BELIEFS, BUT NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO IMPOSE THEIR PERSONAL BELIEFS ONTO ANY OTHER.
THOSE WHO DO SO ARE MOST ASSUREDLY CLASSIFIABLE AS RADICAL.

"RADICAL ISLAM"?
WELL, THIS HAS GONE ON FOR ABOUT 1,400 YEARS NOW!
WAS IT "RADICAL" ISLAM THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH VIOLENCE 1,000 YEARS AGO, 500 YEARS AGO, IN THE 1800s?  

I SUBMIT THAT WHAT WE WHO ARE NOT MUSLIM MAY CALL "RADICAL ISLAM" IS SIMPLY PURE ISLAM.
IT IS PART OF THE ISLAMIC BELIEF SYSTEM, PART OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM.
THOSE WHO AGREE WITH WHAT WE SEE AS TERRORISTS ARE MERELY AGREEING WITH THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING TO MAKE ISLAM A WORLD RELIGION.

THERE IS GREAT DANGER IN SUCH A DRIVE TO SUBJUGATE THE ENTIRE WORLD!

SOME OTHER SOURCES FOR THIS BLOG:

"Europe's Last Stand," by Geert Wilders (October 8, 2008);

"Islamist Extremism in Europe," by Kristin Archik, Jack Rollins and Steven Woehrel (July 29, 2005);

and "Wahhabism & Islam in the U.S.," by Stephen Schwartz (June 30, 2003).

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=99

http://islamqa.info/en/3633

http://www.theblaze.com/news/radical-islam/

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/05/the_greatest_murder_machine_in_history.html

THE TRUTH ABOUT WELFARE IN AMERICA

ONLY 13.2 PERCENT OF FAMILIES/HOUSEHOLDS RECEIVING A WELFARE "CHECK" HAD NO WORKING ADULT,
THIS MEANS THAT 86.8% DID HAVE A WORKING ADULT.
TRY TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND IT...ALMOST 90% OF ALL "ABLE-BODIED" ADULTS ON WELFARE DO WORK!


OF THE 13.2% OF NON-WORKING ADULTS, I COULD FIND NO STATS ON HOW MANY ARE UNEMPLOYED COLLEGE STUDENTS, THE RECENTLY UNEMPLOYED, ADULTS WITH SHORT-TERM DEBILITATING ILLNESSES, OR RETURNING VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
YES, AMERICA, THE POOR WORK! 
THEY CAN'T LIVE ON "WELFARE"! 
THEY WOULD STARVE AND DIE!
AND MANY DO JUST THAT!
THAT DISPELS THE LIES TOLD BY POLITICIANS WHO SCREAM ABOUT "LAZY TRASH", "DEADBEATS", "MOOCHERS" & "WORTHLESS TAKERS". 
AS ONE WEBSITE PUT IT, "POLITICIANS SLING FALSE DATA ABOUT WELFARE LIKE A MONKEY SLINGS ITS OWN S___!"
MORE ON WHAT A SORRY BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES CONGRESS IS LATER.

MY MAIN SOURCES FOR THE FOLLOWING ARE :
US Department of Health and Human Services,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
and the CATO Institute.

IF ANYONE HAS STATS WE CAN BELIEVE, IT'S THE DEPARTMENTS THAT ACTUALLY HANDLE THINGS, YES?
AND "WATCHDOG GROUPS"?
According to the USDA:
MORE THAN HALF OF THOSE "ON WELFARE" SPENT LESS THAN 12 MONTHS "GETTING ASSISTANCE".

FOR CLARIFICATION "TANF" IS AN ACRONYM FOR "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families".
IN 2012 CHILDREN ACCOUNTED FOR THREE-QUARTERS, 75% OF ALL TANF  RECIPIENTS!
SHOULD WE PUT CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, THE SEVERELY DISABLED TO WORK?
DOING WHAT?
76% of 'welfare" households included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person.

A disproportionate share of TANF recipients are under the age of six, relative to the general child population. 

THOSE LAZY DRUG-TAKING LITTLE KIDS NEED TO GET A JOB, RIGHT?

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "WELFARE QUEEN"!
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE PER HOUSEHOLD OF THOSE ON TANF WAS ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE "NORMAL" AMERICAN FAMILY....3.7 PEOPLE  PER FAMILY!
NOT 4, 5, OR 10, JUST ABOUT 4...LIKE YOUR FAMILY MAYBE, YES?

The average monthly cash payment to a family with one child is $300-$375 per month.
THE MOST ANYONE CAN GET IS ABOUT $860 PER MONTH AND THAT'S IN HAWAII!
IN CALIFORNIA, IT'S ABOUT $740
Cash allowance benefits for financial assistance are regulated BY EACH STATE and allowances paid will also vary based on different criteria. 

THAT'S THE CUT-OFF, THAT'S THE "BIG MONEY" PEOPLE MAKE ON WELFARE!AND CONGRESS JUST MADE SURE MORE CHILDREN CAN'T QUALIFY!

HERE'S ANOTHER "NEWSFLASH" FOR YOU!
LESS than 20% of children living below poverty Iin 2012-2013 were on welfare "rolls"!!!   

80% of America's impoverished children, and their parents do not even apply for welfare!
WOULDN'T THEY QUALIFY?
OF COURSE THEY WOULD!
48% OR SO OF AMERICA WOULD PROBABLY QUALIFY!
48% OF AMERICA COULD BE CALLED "POOR"!
AMERICA HIT THE BOTTOM OF THE ECONOMIC BARREL IN 2005-2008, SO A LOT OF NEW "POOR PEOPLE" WERE CREATED BY THAT!

PEOPLE WHO DO QUALIFY ARE STILL GETTING WAY BELOW AMERICA'S "POVERTY LEVEL"!

AND FOR EVERY DOLLAR WELFARE RECIPIENTS GO OUT AND WORK FOR, THEIR "BENEFITS", ALL OF THEM ARE REDUCED. 

A LARGE FAMILY CAN GET ABOUT $500 A MONTH IN "FOOD STAMPS", BUT FOOD STAMPS DO NOT BUY ANYTHING BUT FOOD, HUMAN FOOD.

COMPARED TO THE "AVERAGE" AMERICAN FAMILY WHICH SPENDS ROUGHLY 65% ON NECESSITIES LIKE FOOD, HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, WELFARE HOUSEHOLDS SPEND 77% 

25% OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS DO NOT OWN A VEHICLE NOR A PHONE, WHICH MAKES IT VERY HARD TO GO GET A JOB.
EMPLOYERS DEMAND YOU HAVE A PHONE AND A WAY TO GET TO WORK SHOULD THEY NEED YOU TO COME IN TO FILL IN FOR SOMEONE ELSE!

NO, WELFARE RECIPIENTS ARE NOT A BUNCH OF DRUG-TAKING ADDICTS AND MANDATORY TESTS ACROSS THE NATION HAVE PROVEN HOW FEW ON WELFARE USE DRUGS!
IF WE COMPARE THESE STATS TO HOW MANY PEOPLE IN "AVERAGE" HOUSEHOLDS ARE DRUG ADDICTS, YOU WILL BE ASTOUNDED!
MIAMI, FL — Ushered in amid promises that it would save taxpayers money and deter drug users, a Florida law requiring drug tests for people who seek welfare benefits resulted in no direct savings, snared few drug users and had no effect on the number of applications, according to recently released state data. 
2.6 percent of the state’s cash assistance applicants failed the drug test, or 108 of 4,086.
Because the Florida law requires that applicants who pass the test be reimbursed for the cost, an average of $30, the cost to the state was $118,140.
This is MORE than would have been paid out in benefits to the people who failed the test.

Arizona, which passed a drug-testing law in 2009, after three years and 87,000 screenings, found only one person had failed the drug test, with huge costs for the state,
UTAH with its drug testing had almost identical results to Florida's: in Utah, only 12 people out of 466—or 2.5 percent—showed evidence of drug use after a mandatory screening. 

The addictions of poor people are limited by income.

Compare this to PHYSICIANS, for instance, who have the greatest exposure and easiest access to opiates and it's PHYSICIANS whose addiction rates are higher than those of most if not all other professional groups, but PHYSICIANS ARE NOT LIVING IN POVERTY. THEY HAVE EASY ACCESS, MONEY TO SPEND ON DRUGS, NOT LIKE THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY! 

BOTH ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION OCCUR MORE IN "UPPER CLASSES" THAN IN THE IMPOVERISHED!

YOU HAVE TO BE DESTITUTE TO QUALIFY FOR WELFARE CHECKS!
To qualify for welfare a person has to be destitute.
A single person is only allowed total assets of $1,500, and a single parent family only $2,500, so they have to use up their savings, pension, etc before accessing welfare. Only when a person is broke can they claim welfare.  

To claim, they have to bring a huge pile of documents and fill out a long form. 

Documents include: Record of Employment, current resume, proof of job search, 2 pieces of ID, most recent pay stubs (including holiday pay), Employment Insurance stubs, Income Tax Notice of Assessment or confirmation that taxes have not been filed, pension  stubs,  all bank information including all statements on all accounts, holdings, and lines of credit (whether held jointly or individually), other financial records for bonds, trust funds, life insurance policy(s) showing cash surrender values, separation agreements/divorce decrees, court documents on Maintenance & Support Agreements, self-employment financial records, Sub-Contractor Financial Records, Child Tax/Family Bonus Statement, student loan/registration, vehicle registration, ‘AVOID’ check, and a pile more documents to do with housing tenancy or ownership.

“The application process is very complex and long. It could take up to four hours to complete the application. One must be fairly well educated with good math skills to do it him/herself.”

COULD YOU GO THROUGH ALL THAT? WOULD YOU?

ALMOST NO ONE COULD QUALIFY FOR ALL 8 TYPES OF WELFARE ASSISTANCE!   

A Cato Institute study in Wisconsin showed clearly that fewer than 260 out of the state’s total population of 5.7 million (that is, less than 1/200th of 1 percent of the state’s population) could hope to receive MAXIMUM "welfare aid"

CATO also showed that ONLY 27 out of 100 families in poverty received TANF (cash welfare) in 2011.

The pay-out of TANF benefits in the same year, 2011, were LESS than they were in 1996!

LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE TRY THEIR BEST TO AVOID BEING ON WELFARE, DOESN'T IT?

THE WASHINGTON POST WROTE:

Even as you look at these welfare amounts, it is not surprising that the current allowance benefits seldom, if ever, make ends meet for the recipient. The institutionalized program was set up to be an offset measure for those in need, not a complete replacement of income and benefits.

WELFARE IS NO GET-RICH-QUICK SCHEME!

RAMPANT WELFARE FRAUD IS ANOTHER MYTH, A DOWNRIGHT LIE AS CONGRESSMEN OFTEN PORTRAY MILLIONS COMMITTING WELFARE FRAUD.
THEY LIE!

"RAMPANT WELFARE FRAUD" IS A MYTH, UNLESS YOU THINK THE 0.6% OF ALL RECIPIENTS WHO HAVE EVER BEEN CHARGED WITH FRAUD CAN BE CALLED RAMPANT.

0.6%...NOT EXACTLY RAMPANT FRAUD, IS IT?

0.6% OF THE OVER 12 MILLION WHO RECEIVE WELFARE CHECKS!
0.6% OF ALL WHO RECEIVE ANY WELFARE "BENEFITS"!

Vendors committed 93% of welfare fraud. VENDORS...THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING WELFARE ASSISTANCE!

The problem is that everyone -- from the news media to well-meaning activists -- refer to "the poor" as one group having the same problem, when in reality no two people are in the category for the same reason, and almost none fall neatly into the stereotype. Right now there are millions of people out there who are using government assistance because they are ...

1~ People in a Temporary Emergency

2~ People Trapped in (and by) the System Itself.
These are the seriously poor, their MINIMUM WAGE incomes keep them poor, and their "assistance" never gives them enough to dig out of the rut. 

It's crazy but the "benefits" on welfare almost NEVER include higher education or job training for a BETTER job!
Wouldn't a GOOD system do both?

Remember, a little over 90 percent of welfare benefits go to the elderly, the disabled, and working households.

If they're unemployed, they're in a Catch-22 where they need a car and a working phone to get a job, but they need a job to afford a car and a working phone (and yes, if you are lacking both of those things, your application is almost certainly going in the trash -- they won't hire somebody they can't call in for work on short notice).

Throw kids into the mix, and it gets more complicated still. 

CHILDCARE COSTS...PLENTY!

You can't get ahead because ALL of your time, money, and energy are being poured into just BARELY maintaining the life you're currently living.

And if you get out there and work 2 jobs, 3 jobs, if you can find ONE, then your income will cancel out MOST welfare "benefits"!

No more health insurance for the family, no more food stamps, no more rent or utility assistance, not even a dollar to help pay for child care.

As BusinessInsider recently wrote:

The Affordable Care Act will make it possible for people on Medicaid to go back to work without fearing loss of health insurance. It will turn what benefit cliffs exist in the Medicaid program into a gradual slope, so nobody will have to fear that an extra dollar of income will make them uninsured.

...conservatives and libertarians don't really care about the poverty trap, much as they may talk about it — they just hate spending money on the poor.

It's almost as though welfare assistance was designed to KEEP people on welfare?
Well, was it?

WELFARE RECIPIENTS DO PAY TAXES!
The 87% who work do pay into the tax gathering system!
They owe the IRS, same as you.
They pay into "Social Security", unemployment, Medicare, SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE.

They pay tax on everything they buy, just like you.
They have to buy vehicle tags, and also pay that gas tax.
Being below America's poverty level never means you don't pay TAX!

MYTH: Supporting welfare is a burden causing financial hardship to working class Americans.

FACT: Together, AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) and Food Stamps are by far the largest items of the welfare budget. Yet in 1992, AFDC formed only 1 percent of the combined state and federal budgets. Food stamps also took up 1 percent.
(Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, "Cash and Noncash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY 1990-92," Report 93-832 EPW and earlier reports.) If you expand the definition of "welfare" to include all one-way transfers of benefits for which no services or repayment are required in exchange (such as student grants, school lunches and pensions for needy veterans) then welfare takes up only 12 percent of the combined budgets. (Sources: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, "Cash and Noncash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY 1990-92," Report 93-832 EPW, and earlier reports; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Government Finances, series GF, No. 5, 1992.)

For the past few years I've watched something "go viral" that SHOULD show everyone the FALSEHOODS of a "good life on welfare".
"THE WELFARE CHALLENGE"
VISIT ONE OF THE MANY WEBSITES THAT WILL WALK YOU THROUGH IT.
ONE OF THEM IS HERE:
http://welfarefoodchallenge.org/past-campaigns/

GO, TAKE THE CHALLENGE, BUT NO CHEATING!
LET US KNOW HOW YOU DID.
AND NO EXCUSING YOUR CHILDREN, PETS, OR VISITORS FROM STICKING TO THE CHALLENGE!

OH, ABOUT THOSE LYING CONGRESSMEN.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES CONGRESSMEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, AND/OR ACCUSED OR CONVICTED OF CRIMES?
OF THE 500 OR SO IN THE 2000 CONGRESS, 300 FELL INTO ONE OF THE ABOVE CATEGORIES.
BEING DRUNK SEEMS TO BE THE #1 REASON THEY WERE ARRESTED, BUT THEY NEVER GET PROSECUTED FOR THAT, EVEN WHEN THEIR DRUNK RIVING KILLS SOMEONE!
SPOUSE ABUSE WAS IN THE TOP 10.
SHOPLIFTING, FRAUD, PASSING WORTHLESS CHECKS, MISUSE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS, OTHER ASSAULT, AND PETTY THEFT ARE A FEW OTHER THINGS CONGRESS HAS BEEN CAUGHT DOING.
AND, IF YOU SIMPLY GO BACK TO VIDEOS OF THEIR "CAMPAIGN PROMISES", THEN CHECK TO SEE IF ANY OF THEM KEPT THOSE PROMISES, YOU WILL SEE THAT THOSE YOU ARE BELIEVING ON THIS "WELFARE FRAUD", ETC, ARE LIARS!
BIG LIARS!
CHRONIC LIARS!
SO WHY DO YOU BELIEVE A WORD THEY SAY?
MOST NEVER READ ANYTHING FOR THEMSELVES, DON'T DO RESEARCH...HELL, THEY NEVER EVEN READ THE BILLS THEY PASS!

IF YOU'VE READ ALL THIS AND MY OTHER BLOGS ON THE SUBJECT AND YOU STILL HATE THE "WELFARE PEOPLE"...GO, AND NEVER RETURN HERE.
THERE IS NO HOPE THAT YOU WILL EVER HAVE HUMAN COMPASSION IN A MEANINGFUL AMOUNT.
WE'LL JUST COUNT YOU AMONG THE "WILLFULLY IGNORANT".

FOR AN INSIGHT INTO WHAT IT'S LIKE TO "GO ON WELFARE", READ THIS BLOG BY A FORMER NASA EMPLOYEE:
http://everydayfeminism.com/2012/09/im-a-welfare-mom/

Older data but a lot of facts can be found at:
http://anitra.net/homelessness/columns/anitra/eightmyths.html

One of the most recent sets of data can be found here:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/hhs-report-percentage-americans-welfare-hits-recorded-high

[For a laugh on convicted felons in Congress, see https://www.wwco.com/~dda/criminals.php]

DRUNKS in Congress....too numerous to list, but SEVERAL mainstream media reporters AND Alan grayson reported drunks were the order of the day when they shut down the federal government.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/01/grayson_blames_shutdown_on_gop_literally_drinking_on_the_job/

AMERICAN POLITICIANS CONVICTED OF CRIMES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicans_convicted_of_crimes